Awesome Tools!

Useful Links

1. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

2. Cool Tools for Schools Wiki
3. Digital Citizenship - Teaching students about safely using the Internet
4. Support Educational Blogging Wiki (includes examples of teacher blogs)
5. ALA Top Teaching and Learning Sites
6. Storybird-collaborative storytelling
7. Education Podcast Network - over 1000 different educational podcasts
8. 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Educators
9. Miss Training (Office 2K7) from Foxborough Public Schools

Useful Web 2.0 Tools:

1. Tiny URL - Tools to share web links using shorter web addreses
2. Zamzar- free file conversion
3. Google Reader - RSS Reader
4. VoiceThread - Tool for conversations around media
5. Blabberize - Creating a talking picture (quite literally)
6. Voki - Create a talking cartoon of yourself
7. Prezi - Free 3-D presentation tool
8. Photo Peach - Free slide shows to go!
9. Glogster - Free online posters
10. Wordle - generates word clouds from text provided
11. Slideshare - Upload and share PowerPoint presentations and documents
12. Delicious - Social bookmarking website
13. Audio Boo - Mobile & web platform for podcasting and uploading audio to share
14. ipadio - broadcast from any phone to the Internet live (phone blogging = phlogging)
15. 10 Other Word Cloud Generators -this is a blog giving URL's for word cloud generators (Wordle and others)
16. Dipity.com -- free digital timeline
17. Xtranormal.com -- free text to video website
18. Screentoaster.com -- free screen recording of your computer
19. Onetruemedia.com -- create free videos using pictures and other multimedia

Other Useful Resources:

1. Technorati - Search engine for Blogs
2. ISTE NETS Standards (see left side menu for link to NETS for students vs. teachers)
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Useful Software:

1. Jing Project - Free screen recording software
2. Tech Smith - paid screen capturing and video editing software
   1. Camtasia Studio - screen capturing & video editing
   2. Snag It- screen capturing & picture editing
3. Audacity - Free audio recording software
4. ALA Top 25 Teaching and Learning Sites
5. Shape Collage
6. Slide.com - create cute slideshows free
7. smilebox.com--create free slideshow